The Official Amazon Associates Blog

Summer Blu-ray Blowout: Save up to 50%

Summer has officially begun and we are excited to announce a special promotion on over 100 Blu-ray titles at up to 50% off. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to promote Blu-ray on your site to let your readers know about great bargains on Amazon’s wide selection of discounted Blu-ray titles, including “300”, “The Terminator”, “Bladerunner (Five-Disc Complete Collector's Edition),” and “Weeds – the Complete Second Season.” This promotion ends June 9 so don't wait to spread the word.

In addition, Amazon will be celebrating graduation season and Father’s Day with “High Definition Week” in the Gold Box from June 2-6. Check back daily for exciting deals featuring HighDef consumer electronics, video games, and Blu-ray Movies and TV at unbelievable prices.

To link directly to the Summer Blu-ray Blowout page and earn referral fees on the subsequent qualifying purchases, use the following link format, substituting your Associates ID:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?ie=UTF8&docId=1000233361&tag=YOUR_ID_HERE-20

To link to the Amazon.com Gold Box, use the following link format, substituting your Associates ID:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/ref=cs_top_nav_gb27&tag=YOUR_ID_HERE-20

20% off Britax Baby Event

Right now though May 31, Amazon Baby is offering 20% off two or more Britax products.

Promote this event on your website and let your customers take advantage of this unique friends and family offer by using claim code BRITAX20 at checkout.

Link directly to the page below and list the claim code for customers to use.  Earn referral fees on the subsequent qualifying purchases using the following link format, substituting your Associates ID:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/?node=492320011&tag=YOUR_ID_HERE-20

Amazon introduces the MP3 Clips Widget

Introducing...the new MP3 Clips Widget which lets you play song samples from Amazon’s vast DRM-free catalog of over 5 Million MP3s. You can handpick the songs and albums you want or display the latest Bestsellers/New Releases from the music genre of your choice.  And right now Amazon Associates will earn a 10% referral fee on each MP3 download they refer.

Check out the widget here:

Click here to install the MP3 widget. Check out a live demo of this widget. 

Amazon’s digital products include the Unbox Video & TV Preview Widget which shows studio previews for a huge range of recent and classic movies or tv shows avaliable from the Unbox video download service; The Kindle Chicklet which allows you to highlight content on your site that’s available for download to the Kindle device; and the Your Video Widget which lets you earn referral fees while sharing the videos you already post on your webpage through product links.

Here's what some of our customers had to say about our MP3 service and MP3 Clips Widget:

“The Amazon affiliate program has a new MP3 widget that really sets them apart from other affiliate programs. Fan blogs of different singers and bands are a natural. Movie sites can feature soundtracks. There are a lot of possibilities here,” said Shawn Collins, co-founder of the Affiliate Summit.

“Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas is excited to partner with Amazon MP3.  The extensive variety of artists available to download on the site makes this a perfect match for us to promote upcoming shows at all of our venues,” said Oscar Sagastume, Internet Marketing Manager, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

Martin Stiksel, Last.fm co-founder, said: “When we started offering millions of tracks for free-on-demand streaming earlier this year, we were confident that enabling music fans to listen for free would encourage more music purchasing. In this respect our relationship with Amazon MP3 was vital – it has the breadth of catalogue and ease of use that’s necessary to give our users the best online music consumption experience. We were extremely pleased to see that our partnership has raised the game for online music, as download and CD purchasing on Last.fm via Amazon increased 119% since the free-on-demand launch. This is a great vindication for the pioneering services both our companies provide to music fans.”

"Forty percent of Pandora's listeners are buying more music since they began using Pandora. We're thrilled with the great flexibility that Amazon brings to our listeners with access to the Amazon MP3 store to satisfy this wonderful appetite for new music,” said Pandora’s Founder, Tim Westergren

To check out live examples of all Amazon Digital products visit our demo on the Associates blog.

Buy 3 for the Price of 2 Blu-ray promotion

Starting today through May 14, 2008,   Blu-ray fans can stock up on three discs for the price of two at Amazon.com.  Add I, Robot, The Terminator, Ice Age, Sunshine, and many others to your collection now!

To link directly to the Buy 3 for the price of 2 promotion page and earn referral fees on the subsequent qualifying purchases, use the following link format, substituting your Associates ID: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000225131&tag=YOUR_ID_HERE-20

Amazon Kindle is now in stock: Earn 10%

Amazon is excited to announce that Kindle is now in stock and available for shipment. Customers can order today and receive free two-day shipping on Kindle. Associates will earn 10% in referral fees on the Amazon Kindle wireless reading device and Kindle Edition books and newspaper, magazine, and blog subscriptions. With Kindle priced at $359 you can earn $35.90 on each Kindle purchase you refer.

We’ve created a few easy ways for you to promote and earn referral fees on Kindle:

Text Links: To create a text link directly to the Kindle detail page and earn referral fees on the subsequent qualifying purchases, visit our text links page and enter 'www.amazon.com/kindle' in the 'link to any page on Amazon.com' search box to get the HTML.

Widgets: Visit our widgets gallery and select the Kindle Chicklet to promote any Kindle edition content ((books, magazines, newspapers, or blogs) on your site that is available for download on the Kindle Chicklet. This is a great way for you to distribute your content and earn referral fees at the same time.

Banners: Visit our banners page and select from one of our new banners to promote Kindle.